Casting is underway on Blumhouse’s small screen spinoff of the hit movie franchise The Purge, with Deadline reporting that Gabriel Chavarria (East Los High) and Jessica Garza (Six) have been cast as the male and female leads in the USA Network and Syfy series. Chavarria will play Miguel, “a US Marine with a hard edge […]
Funko’s Avengers: Infinity War Pop! Vinyl figures revealed
With the release of Marvel’s hugely-anticipated superhero epic Avengers: Infinity War fast approaching, Funko has unveiled its upcoming wave of Pop! Vinyl tie-in figures, which you can see here; check them out… An unprecedented cinematic journey ten years in the making and spanning the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel Studios’ “Avengers: Infinity War” brings to the […]
Amazon renews Lore for a second season
Amazon has announced that it has renewed its supernatural anthology series Lore for a second season, which will see Sean Crouch (The Exorcist, Numb3rs) coming in to serve as showrunner. Based on the award-winning podcast by Aaron Mahnke, Lore features narration, archive footage, cinematic footage and animation in order to explore disturbing real life tales […]
Rian Johnson calls the conversation around Star Wars: The Last Jedi “wonderful”
Rian Johnson, director of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, says the debate generated by his film is a “joy”, and that he looks at the situation with fondness. Star Wars: The Last Jedi may now be yesterday’s news but the film certainly caused a lot of commotion upon release. And we’re not just talking about […]
R.I.P. Benjamin Melniker (1913 – 2018)
If you’ve seen a Batman movie – live-action or animated – over the past thirty years, you’ll have seen the name Benjamin Melniker listed as an executive producer alongside Michael E. Uslan. And sadly, Uslan has taken to Facebook today to announce that Melniker has passed away at the age of 104. https://www.facebook.com/TheMichaelUslan/photos/a.654623804600744.1073741825.385460978183696/1751485604914553/?type=3&theater Inspired by […]
Wonder Woman 2 confirmed to start filming this summer according to producer
According to a producer for the DC Extended Universe, Wonder Woman 2 will commence shooting this summer. With news of a surprise hit in the form of Black Panther being the current talk of the town, it’s easy to forget that it wasn’t so long ago that Wonder Woman was making similar waves on its […]
X-Men: The New Mutants to undergo significant reshoots, will add an extra character
Last month 20th Century Fox announced that it has decided to push back the release of its X-Men spinoff The New Mutants almost a year, with the Josh Boone-directed film now set to open in February 2019 rather than April of this year. Officially, the reason given was to “avoid an overlap with X-Men movies in certain overseas […]
Black Panther fans launch petition for Wakanda TV series
As Black Panther continues to tear up the box office following another record-breaking weekend, it seems that fans are clamouring for more of Marvel’s latest superhero franchise – so much so that one fan, Eric Hamilton, has launched a petition lobbying Marvel for a TV spinoff. Posted on Change.org, the petition calls for a TV […]
Rian Johnson praises Solo: A Star Wars Story
Rian Johnson, director of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, has applauded Solo: A Star Wars Story. We are now less than three months away from the release of the next film in the Star Wars franchise, Solo: A Star Wars Story – Lucasfilm’s first anthology movie since the release of Rogue One in 2016. The marketing […]
Fox developing a Silver Surfer movie from Brian K. Vaughan
Despite the impending takeover from Disney, it seems that its business as usual at 20th Century Fox for the time being, which also means the studio is pushing full steam ahead with its Marvel movie plans. A few weeks ago it was revealed that Deadpool director Tim Miller and comic book writer Brian Michael Bendis […]
